Triple

T1617680
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Columbia Accident Investigation Board E34756 entity
Predicate chairperson P377 FINISHED
Object Harold W. Gehman Jr.
Harold W. Gehman Jr. is a retired United States Navy admiral best known for leading the investigation into the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
E265188 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Harold W. Gehman Jr. | Statement: [Columbia Accident Investigation Board, chairperson, Harold W. Gehman Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold W. Gehman Jr.
Context triple: [Columbia Accident Investigation Board, chairperson, Harold W. Gehman Jr.]
  • A. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • B. Robert B. Hotz
    Robert B. Hotz was an American aviation journalist and editor known for his expertise in aerospace and defense, who served on the presidential Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • C. Robert S. Boyer
    Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
  • D. Edgar A. Newell
    Edgar A. Newell was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for building the Newell Company into a major consumer goods manufacturer that later became Newell Brands.
  • E. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Harold W. Gehman Jr.
Triple: [Columbia Accident Investigation Board, chairperson, Harold W. Gehman Jr.]
Generated description
Harold W. Gehman Jr. is a retired United States Navy admiral best known for leading the investigation into the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold W. Gehman Jr.
Target entity description: Harold W. Gehman Jr. is a retired United States Navy admiral best known for leading the investigation into the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  • A. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • B. Robert B. Hotz
    Robert B. Hotz was an American aviation journalist and editor known for his expertise in aerospace and defense, who served on the presidential Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • C. Robert S. Boyer
    Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
  • D. Edgar A. Newell
    Edgar A. Newell was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for building the Newell Company into a major consumer goods manufacturer that later became Newell Brands.
  • E. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a885ffc5ec819091afa325d5f9611c completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a909addb348190a80a97422efcaa63 completed March 5, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aebef5ac7c81908015969c04fcc425 completed March 9, 2026, 12:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aec38a3b8081909f6a8474e59f7575 completed March 9, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aec3e8aa9c8190b9930f1af57b8380 completed March 9, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.